Quote of the Week

August 24th, 2003

"I've learned to focus my energy on the present, to be fully aware of what's happening in every moment and not to worry about what should have happened, what's going wrong, or what might come next. . . this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

-- Oprah

August 17th, 2003

"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."

-- Joan L. Curcio

August 10th, 2003

"The world doesn't need any more writers, it needs storytellers. Because we live in a chaotic world. We need heroes. Storytellers bring magic, peace, comfort. I love craft, but craft doesn't do it. Storytelling is a calling that answers to our collective unconscious."

-- Jennifer Crusie

August 3rd, 2003

"... publishing is a business, and the bottom line is making money. I don't need or expect my ego to be stroked, and I can live just fine without perks. That doesn't mean I'll turn them down if they're offered, but the bottom line for me is how well my books are treated."

-- Linda Howard

July 27th, 2003

"Any idiot can face a crisis--It's this day to day living that wears you out."

-- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

July 20th, 2003

"For those who have tasted the profound activity of writing, reading is no more than a secondary pleasure."

-- Stendhal (Henri Beyle) 1783-1842

De l'Amour (1822)

July 13th, 2003

"The best fame is a writer's fame: it's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough that you get interrupted when you eat."

-- Fran Lebowitz (1946-

in Observer 30 May 1993 'Sayings of the Week'

July 6th, 2003

"Better build schoolrooms for 'the boy', Than cells and gibbets for 'the man'.

-- Eliza Cook (1818-89)

'A Song for the Ragged Schools (1853)

June 29th, 2003

"How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gasmasks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing."

-- Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)

speech from 10 Downing Street, 30 September 1938, in The Times 1 October 1938

June 22nd, 2003

"You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows. What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways."

--The Bible, Job 22: 27, 28

June 15th, 2003

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

-- Henry David Thoreau

June 8th, 2003

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."

-- Goethe

June 1, 2003

"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is."

-- Mark Twain

May 25th, 2003

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

May 18th, 2003

"If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try."

-- W.H. Auden

May 11th, 2003

"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

-- Barbara A. Robinson

May 4th, 2003

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."

-- Les Brown

April 27th, 2003

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

-- Oprah Winfrey

April 20th, 2003

"Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you."

-- Marsha Norman

April 13th, 2003

"Mankind is composed of two sorts of men -- those who love and create," and those who hate and destroy.

-- Jose Marti

April 6th, 2003

"To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give."

-- Tristan Bernard

March 23rd, 2003

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

-- Sir James M. Barrie

March 16th, 2003

"The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases."

-- Joseph [Hinmaton Yalatkit]
Nez Perce chief

March 9th, 2003

"A room without books is like a soul without hope."

-- Unknown

March 2nd, 2003

"Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe."

-- Alfonso the Wise, King of Castile

February 23rd, 2003

"I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."

-- Rudyard Kipling

February 16th, 2003

"The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck."

-- President Theodore Roosevelt

February 9th, 2003

"I heartily accept the motto, `That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, -- `That government is best which governs not at all'."

-- Henry David Thoreau

February 2nd, 2003

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

-- Viktor Frankl

January 26th, 2003

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

-- John Lennon

January 19th, 2003

"I survived."

-- Abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836)

When asked what he had done during the French Revolution.

January 12th, 2003

"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish:

God Almighty made 'em to match the men."

-- George Eliot (1819-1880)

January 5th, 2003

"God does not play dice."

-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Einstein's habitually expressed reaction to the quantum theory.

December 29th, 2002

"The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbours as any others."

-- Jonathan Edwards (1629-1712)

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